On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 06:42:25PM -0700, Frank Chen wrote: > Due to a problem we are having with USB cold plugging, > I am exploring the possibility of using the old devfs. > > Is it possible to move Fedora 4 to a custom kernel > including devfs? devfs is being removed upstream. In the current kernel, the config option is no longer there. next release, unless theres a compelling reason, the whole code is being ripped out. > Would there be conflicts between devfs and udev/hotplug? probably. plus you'd have to deal with various /dev nodes having their devfs names rather than the names various bits of userspace expect. > Will devfs create an entry under /dev/usb for a hot > plugged USB device? Will devfs always create an entry > for cold plugged USB device? Don't know. The correct solution is to find out why udev isn't doing what you expect it to do, and fix that. Dave
